Bad luck for the Conch
No, a conch grows his shell. The bigger the shell usually the older the conch is.
it is called a shell
Yes because a conch is a kind of shell.
Conch belong to the class Gastropoda. Gastropods have one shell, a well developed head with tentacles and eyes in some species.
He suggests Ralph to blow the conch shell
The conch mentioned in Lord of the Flies is a conch shell, so it wouldn't be slimy at all. The creature which originally lived inside the shell was a type of mollusc (a sea snail) and it would have been slimy.
A conchs shell grows along with the shell. They also change color to show the age of the conch.
The thickness of the shell (lip) increases with the age. This is how you can determine the age of the conch.
what is the scientific name for a conch shell???
The conch shell is actually the shell of a sea-dwelling mollusc known as a conch. There are many varieties of conch, with most living in the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean regions. Many are found in beds of sea grass in warm tropical waters.
No, a conch is a mollusk which lives in a conch shell ,which it secretes itself. As the conch grows the shell gets bigger too, to accommodate it. Sea snails tend not to have any shell at all and if they do have a shell it is one that they secrete themselves. Hermit crabs live in the empty shells of mollusks and move to a new shell as they grow bigger.
A shell